Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Grade 8, AL COS Std #: 10 Demonstrate an appreciation for the power of language as it evokes emotion, expands thinking, and influences problem solving, decision-making, and action. Examples: literary response journals, spontaneous response writings

Lesson Plans: Oregon Trail Writing about the Oregon Trail Children of War Students will read a variety of diary entries of children of wars. Students will be involved with role playing some of the diary entries

Resources: Online Stories Free stories online Suggestions for English Language Learners: ESL Ideas (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional) (B, I, T) Students listen to a historical speech. Intermediate and transitional students list the ways the speech affected them, then discuss ways language can make them feel. (B, I, T) Students listen to, read, or role-play a drama in the classroom, noting and discussing the changes in language as the characters express varying emotions.
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